What's new in Visual Studio 2022
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Visual Studio 
Visual Studio for Mac
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With Visual Studio 2022, you'll always get the best-in-class tools and services available for any developer, any app, and any platform. Whether you're using Visual Studio for the first time or you've been using it for years, there's a lot to like in our newest version!
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Performance improvements
Visual Studio 2022 is faster, more approachable, more lightweight, and is designed for both learners and those building industrial scale solutions.
Visual Studio 2022 is 64-bit
Visual Studio 2022 on Windows is now a 64-bit application. This means you can open, edit, run, and debug even the biggest and most complex solutions without running out of memory. To learn more, see both the Visual Studio 2022 vision and Visual Studio 2022 17.0 Preview blog posts.
Find in Files is faster
In Visual Studio 2022, we focused on improving the performance of several key features. For example, Find in Files is now as much as 3x faster when searching large solutions such as Orchard Core.
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New in 17.1: With new indexed searching, Find in Files is even faster! For more information, see the Code search in Visual Studio 2022 is about to get much faster blog post.
Build modern apps
Visual Studio 2022 makes it quick and easy to build modern, cloud-based applications with Azure. As well, our new version also has full support for .NET 6 and its unified framework for web, client, and mobile apps for both Windows and Mac developers. And, Visual Studio 2022 includes robust support for the C++ workload with new productivity features, C++20 tooling, and IntelliSense.
Better dev tools for C++ and .NET, and Hot Reload
Visual Studio 2022 includes better cross-platform app development tools and the latest version of C++ build tools, to include C++20 support.
As well, we're updating Hot Reload so that you can edit either C++ or .NET projects while your application is running. For more information, see the Speed up your .NET and C++ development with Hot Reload in Visual Studio 2022 blog post, and the Write and debug running code with Hot Reload in Visual Studio with C#, C++, or Visual Basic Docs page.
Updates for Blazor & Razor editors + Hot Reload for ASP.NET
Visual Studio 2022 includes a big update for the Blazor and Razor editors, and new capabilities for Hot Reload in ASP.NET Core—including Hot Reload when you save a file or when you apply changes to CSS files live!
Innovation at your fingertips
From real-time & asynchronous collaboration tools to improved insights and productivity tools that seamlessly integrate with your daily workflow, Visual Studio 2022 has this and more.
Multi-repo support with Git in the IDE
If you've worked with projects hosted on different Git repositories, you might have used external tools or multiple instances of Visual Studio to connect to them. In Visual Studio 2022, you can work with a single solution that has projects in multiple repositories and contribute to them all from a single instance of Visual Studio. To learn more, see the Multi-repo support in Visual Studio blog post.
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New in 17.1: We're continuing to add even more functionality to the Git feature set. For the latest info, see the Introducing new Git features to Visual Studio 2022 blog post.
IntelliCode improvements
Whole line completion: In Visual Studio 2022, the IntelliCode feature can now automatically complete code up to a whole line at a time. For details, see the Type less, code more with IntelliCode completions blog post.
Quick Actions recommendations: New in Visual Studio 2022, IntelliCode can now spot when you’re performing a common task and recommend the right Quick Action, completing it right as you’re typing. To learn more, see the Discover quick actions for common tasks as you type, with IntelliCode blog post.
Designing for everyone
We’re refreshing the user interface to better keep you in your flow. Some of the changes include cosmetic touches that modernize the UI or reduce crowding.
Look & feel
From new iconography to subtle color contrast ratio adjustments and a new Cascadia Code font, we're working to make Visual Studio 2022 more accessible for everyone. For all the details, see the We’ve upgraded the UI in Visual Studio 2022 blog post.
Personalization
One of our key focus areas is to make Visual Studio more personalized and flexible so that you can make the IDE your own. For example, Visual Studio 2022 offers you the ability to sync with your Windows theme. So, if you've enabled the "night light" feature there, Visual Studio uses it, too. For more info, see the Personalize your Visual Studio 2022 blog post.
What's next
Want to know more about what we're planning for Visual Studio 2022? See the Roadmap page and the Visual Studio 2022 17.2 Preview release notes for details.
Give us feedback
Why send feedback to the Visual Studio team? Because we take customer feedback seriously. It drives much of what we do.
If you want to make a suggestion about how we can improve Visual Studio, you can do so by using the Suggest a Feature tool.
If you experience an issue where Visual Studio stops responding, crashes, or other performance issues, you can easily share repro steps and supporting files with us by using the Report a Problem tool.